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1. The average of the top 10 scores in a Mu Alpha Theta Statistics test is a 98. If the 1st place student
scored a perfect score of 120, and the 10th place student scored an 84, what is the average test score
of the other 8 students?
A.95

B. 97

C. 94

D. 99

E. NOTA

2. If the median of a distribution is much greater than the mean of the distribution, what can be said
about the shape of the distribution?
A. It is skewed right.
B. It is skewed left.
C. It is bimodal.

D. It is uniform.
E. NOTA

3. How many of the following are not resistant measures in statistics? Median, Mean, Interquartile
Range, Standard Deviation, Correlation, Range
A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

E. NOTA

4. At a math competition, there are 5 distinct divisions Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus,

Statistics, and Calculus. The probability that School A wins any given division is 1/3. The probability
that School B wins any given division is 2/3. If a school must win at least 3 divisions to win the
overall competition, find the probability that School A wins the overall competition.
A.

B.

C.

D.

E. NOTA

5. Representative Underwood is conducting a survey to determine whether his constituents

approve of the construction of a peach-shaped water tower. If he wants to create a 95% confidence
interval of the proportion of constituents who approve of the construction, what is the minimum
sample size required to guarantee an interval with total width less than or equal to 0.06?
A. 748

B. 1068

C. 277

D. 267

E. NOTA

6. Which of the following are examples of categorical data?

I. Car Model
II. Zip Code
III. Favorite Color
IV. Income
V. Race/Ethnicity

A. All of them. B. IV only

C. I, III, and V D. II, and IV

E. NOTA

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7. Which of the following sets are disjoint?
A. X = {prime numbers greater than 5}, Y = {all even integers}
B. X = {perfect squares}, Y = {all numbers greater than 10}
C. X = {multiples of 7}, Y = {perfect cubes}
D. X = {integers between 20 and 30, inclusive}, Y = {numbers of the form n!, where n is an integer}
E. NOTA
8. In The Price is Right, the game Plinko is played by dropping a circular chip down a pegboard
and into a slot labeled with a certain amount of prize money. There are two $0, $100, $500, and
$1000 slots each, and one $10,000 slot in the center. If dropping a Plinko chip onto the pegboard is
effectively random, and each slot is equally likely to be landed in, what is the expected value of prize
money from dropping one Plinko chip, rounded to the nearest dollar?
A. $2320

B. $1289

C. $2640

D. $1467

E. NOTA

9. Suppose that class attendance is normally distributed. If, on average, 20 students attend Bens
Spanish class, and a class size of 23 students is greater than 88.1% of all of Bens Spanish classes,
then, to the nearest thousandth, what is the standard deviation of student attendance?
A. 2.542

B. 2.778

C. 2.344

D. 2.600

E. NOTA

Questions 10 and 11 deal with the sample of numbers {4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42}.
10. To the nearest thousandth, what is the standard deviation?
A. 18.000

B. 12.315

C. 13.491

D. 21.600

E. NOTA

11. Using the IQR Rule for Outliers, which of the numbers in the set qualify as outliers?
A. 4 only

B. 4, 42

C. 23, 42

D. 42 only

E. NOTA

12. Kabletown is conducting an employee satisfaction survey. Out of their 50 offices, 10 are
randomly selected, and every employee within the selected offices is required to complete the
survey. Which of the following best describes the sampling technique Kabletown is using?
A. Random

B. Systematic C. Blocking

D. Cluster

E. NOTA

13. The probability that Walt and Jesse successfully bake any given batch of cookies is 0.7. What is
the probability that out of 10 attempts to bake a batch of cookies, 8 are successful? Round your
answer to the nearest ten thousandth.
A. 0.2335

B. 0.0052

C. 0.1001

D. 0.2668

E. NOTA

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14. If the graph of

is a valid probability distribution from [0.5, k], what is k? (Let be the

floor function.)
A. 1.5

B. 2

C. 2.5

D. 3

E. NOTA

15. To the nearest tenth, what is the mean and standard deviation, respectively, of the following
distribution?
X
P(X)

2
0.05

A. 6.1; 1.7

B. 6.1, 2.9

5
0.4
C. 6.0, 2.7

6
0.25
D. 6.0, 2.4

8
0.2

9
0.1

E. NOTA

16. Which of the following are true if the sample size in an experiment is reduced, assuming all else
remains constant and the sample size is still greater than zero?
I. The probability of a type I error increases.
II. The probability of a type II error increases.
III. A 95% confidence interval generated from the data will have a larger margin of error.
A. I and III

B. II and III

C. I, II, and III D. III only

E. NOTA

17. A least-squares regression line relating the number of Paunch Burger Restaurants in a given city
to the annual combined profits of all of the Paunch Burgers in the city has the equation = 1.52x +
0.43, where x is the number of restaurants and y is the annual profit, in millions of dollars. If the
sample standard deviation of Paunch Burger restaurants is 0.71, and the sample standard deviation
of annual profit is 1.23 million, then to the nearest thousandth, what is the correlation between the
number of restaurants and annual profit?
A. 0.529

B. 0.877

C. 0.577

D. 0.623

E. NOTA

18. Which of these is not a necessary assumption or condition when performing a two-sample t-test
with a large sample size?
A. The distributions of the variable of interest are normal.
B. The responses in each group are independent of each other.
C. The sample size of each group must be less than 10% of the population.
D. The responses of individuals in a group are independent of other individuals in the same group.
E. NOTA

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19. 6 movie stars (Jay, Jonah, Craig, Danny, Seth, and James) are distributing 14 identical Milky Way
bars. If each star must have at least one bar, how many ways are there to distribute the bars to the
stars?
A. 3003

B. 38760

C. 11628

D. 1287

E. NOTA

Questions 20 and 21 are related.

20. Fred and Carrie have started watching the first episode of Battlestar Galactica. If they cannot
stop watching in the middle of an episode and the probability that they stop after finishing any
given episode is 0.1, find the probability that they finish the entire 13-episode first season without
stopping.
A. (0.9)12

B. (0.9)11(0.1)

C. (0.9)12(0.1)

D. (0.9)13

E. NOTA

21. If there are an infinite number of Battlestar Galactica episodes, what is the expected number
and standard deviation of episodes Fred and Carrie will watch? (Assume the same scenario as in
question 19, and round to the nearest hundredth.)
A. 10; 0.35

B. 10; 9.49

C. 11; 0.35

D. 11; 9.49

E. NOTA

22. A modified version of the classic Lets Make a Deal game is played. In this version, there are 5
doors, and only 1 has the prize behind it. You pick a door, and before opening it, the host opens 2
out of the other 4 doors and shows you that there is no prize behind either of them. You are then
offered to pick one of the other two unopened doors at random. If the probability that you pick the
right door when you stand by your original decision is A, and the probability that you pick the right
door once youve switched is B, find AB.
A. 1/9

B. 2/9

C. 2/25

D. 4/25

E. NOTA

Questions 23 and 24 are related.

23. Buster is conducting a Chi-Squared Test of Independence to determine if there is any
relationship between gender and juice flavor preference. If the survey is administered to males and
females with 5 different juice options (Apple, Orange, Grape, Berry, and Tropical Punch), how many
degrees of freedom does the test have?
A. 2

B. 4

C. 5

D. 10

E. NOTA

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24. The results of Busters survey are shown below.
Apple
18
16

Male
Female

Orange
14
10

Grape
8
10

Berry
6
6

Tropical Punch
4
8

Assuming that Buster uses an alpha level = 0.05, and that all conditions and assumptions of the
test are met, then to the nearest hundredth, what is the chi-squared value of the test, and is the
result statistically significant?
A. 2.53, No

B. 2.34, No

C. 2.53, Yes

D. 2.34; Yes

E. NOTA

25. The equation for a least-squares regression line of a certain set of data is y = 2.65x + 0.43. What
is the residual of the data point (4, 12)?
A. 0.32

B. 1.35

C. 1.4

D. 0.97

E. NOTA

26. At any given time, the probability that both Troy and Abed are in the Dreamatorium is 0.28. The
probability that neither are in the Dreamatorium is 0.19. If the probability that Troy is not in the
Dreamatorium is 0.57, then what is the probability that Troy is in the Dreamatorium, given that
Abed is in the Dreamatorium?
A.

B.

C.

D.

E. NOTA

27. The following information about the average age of attendees at a Clash at Demonhead concert
is based on a simple random sample of 300 people. The hypotheses are Ho: = 23, Ha: > 23.
Assume that the population standard deviation is 4. The test rejects Ho at the 5% level of
significance. Calculate the power of the test against the alternative = 23.5. Round your answer to
the nearest ten thousandth.
A. 0.5832

B. 0.6984

C. 0.5833

D. 0.6985

E. NOTA

28. Two fair, six-sided die are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled has
an odd number of factors?
A. 1/6

B. 5/12

C. 1/2

D. 7/36

E. NOTA

29. If the distribution of IQ scores is normal with a mean of 100 and a population standard
deviation of 20, then to the nearest ten thousandth, what is the proportion of the population with IQ
between 85 and 125?
A. 0.7734

B. 0.8944

C. 0.6677

D. 0.9878

E. NOTA

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30. Who was the famous mathematician responsible for discovering the normal distribution
function?
A. Gauss

B. Laplace

C. Euler

D. Poisson

E. NOTA